Domestic Violence and Rape Facts



	"During my time as a prosecutor who made case filing decisions, I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made…Any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes that there is." - former Colorado prosecutor Craig Silverman

	Despite the controversy, many family law professionals agree that false claims of domestic violence are often used as custody maneuvers in divorce cases. For example, an article in the Family Law News, the official publication of the State Bar of California Family Law Section, explained: "[Domestic Violence] Protective orders are increasingly being used in family law cases to help one side jockey for an advantage in child custody… [they are] almost routinely issued by the court in family law proceedings even when there is relatively meager evidence and usually without notice to the restrained person." An article in the November, 2007 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal explains: "If a parent is willing to abuse the system [by making false DV claims], it is unlikely the trial court could discover [his or her] improper motives in an Order of Protection hearing." Domestic Violence Protective (aka “Restraining”) orders have become so commonplace that the Illinois Bar Journal calls them "part of the gamesmanship of divorce."
	http://www.mediaradar.org/

	Domestic Violence Statistics
	http://www.shatterdmen.com/Childmurders.htm

	Internationally acclaimed attorney, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz published an article in the Boston Herald (8/6/94) in which he discussed a nine year study by a Purdue Univ. (female) Sociologist, reported in The Archives of Sexual Behavior, conducted in a large metropolitan area, including two large universities, in which the data showed that 40% of the sexual assault allegations were false. The only definition of "false" was the admission by the supposed "victim" that she had lied. Another study reported in Dershowitz's article was done by New York City sex crimes prosecutor, Linda Fairstein in 1987. Fairstein [the author of "Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape"] found that, of 4000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan, "about HALF simply did not happen!" To paraphrase the Jerry Lee Lewis song, there’s "A whole lot of lying going on!"
	http://www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9247223

	In an investigation of 556 rape cases, reported in Forensic Science Digest, Vol.11, no.4, Dec. 1985, it was found through DNA testing that 33% of the accusations were false. Another 27% in the same study were shown to be false when the women involved admitted lying, or were shown to be lying by lie detector tests. That's a total of 60% false accusations.

	Washington Post reported it's own study, in June, 1992, wherein 30% of allegations of rape were proven false.

	Domestic abuse: Does money fuel false allegations?
	http://blog.moschettilaw.com/2006/12/domestic_abuse_does_money_fuel.html

	About Half of Rape Allegations are False, Research Shows
	http://www.mediaradar.org/research_on_false_rape_allegations.php

	False Domestic Violence Claims Raise Concerns.
	http://www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9247223

	A study by Hugo Adam and Micheael Radelet, reported in Stanford Law Review, 11/87, found 350 cases where DNA proved the accusation false. Sadly, 23 of the men falsely accused had already been executed, and eight more had died in prison; quite a high price to pay for promoting the false notion that women don't lie about sexual assault.